it is not feasible that robots could 'take over' humanity. The only reason they would WANT to do this is if we programmed them to- even if we had AI sophisticated enough to function in such a way as to be dangerous to the human race, we wouldn't pop in a little subroutine for 'destroy all human life'. Robots can't think, they can't make decisions. They do what we program them to do, nothing more.
Global Warming and other environmental problems are all too real, however... if we keep using 'dirty' energy sources, we will deplete our resources and kill off life on Earth (in a worst case scenario of course). If we would only stop the oil companies from buying out and destroying alternative fuel cell research, we woul eliminate a large part of that threat. As for biological weaponry, all we can do is stop rogue governments from gaining power and hope for the best- there is no way to make it impossible for those with the right equipment and funding.
I wonder what Microsoft considers a "bug fix"?
From a Mac user perspective, I see Windows ME as a bug fix of Win98 2nd edition, but they seemed to think it was worth charging for... somehow Microsoft claiming that they're stopping development for a month to crunch on bug fixes sounds more like Enron citing a policy change for reitrement fund freezes than actual quality concern...
Or will it take them an entire month to reverse engineer the next piece of MacOS X?;)
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it is not feasible that robots could 'take over' humanity. The only reason they would WANT to do this is if we programmed them to- even if we had AI sophisticated enough to function in such a way as to be dangerous to the human race, we wouldn't pop in a little subroutine for 'destroy all human life'. Robots can't think, they can't make decisions. They do what we program them to do, nothing more. Global Warming and other environmental problems are all too real, however... if we keep using 'dirty' energy sources, we will deplete our resources and kill off life on Earth (in a worst case scenario of course). If we would only stop the oil companies from buying out and destroying alternative fuel cell research, we woul eliminate a large part of that threat. As for biological weaponry, all we can do is stop rogue governments from gaining power and hope for the best- there is no way to make it impossible for those with the right equipment and funding.
I wonder what Microsoft considers a "bug fix"? From a Mac user perspective, I see Windows ME as a bug fix of Win98 2nd edition, but they seemed to think it was worth charging for... somehow Microsoft claiming that they're stopping development for a month to crunch on bug fixes sounds more like Enron citing a policy change for reitrement fund freezes than actual quality concern... Or will it take them an entire month to reverse engineer the next piece of MacOS X? ;)